Gita Govinda
Twelve cantos of Sanskrit song trace Krishna's spring among the cowherd girls of Vrindavan, Radha's fury and grief when she sees him with the others, and the messages the two send by a confidante across one night in the riverside groves. Jayadeva writes for singing, each canto assigned a musical mode and a rhythm, and the erotic register never detaches from the devotional. Composed at the court of Bengal, it fixed Radha at the center of Krishna worship and is still sung in temples and danced in Odissi.
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